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what he's done for the game. Unfortunately, I'm on the KC side, and never get over to StLou, but I would love to see the chess HoF.

Politics aside, I have another story relating to Sinquefield & chess. I was a Boy Scout, and beginning my love affair with chess, in the early 70s, when Bobby Fischer was questing for the world championship. I wrote letters to the Boy Scouts to urge them to develop a merit badge for chess. I got a half-heartedly positive response back, but nothing ever came of it. Forty years later, the BSA went to Sinquefield for donations, and he wrote a seven-figure check, and waved it under their noses, but with the condition that they develop a chess program for Scouts. You wouldn't believe how fast the BSA came up with a chess merit badge!

I can't find anything definitive about his net worth, either. He's pretty secretive about it, it seems. He does have a burning hatred of taxes, which explains a lot of his politics.